GUTKA

New Delhi: In what he called 'healthy measures', Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday increased excise duties on tobacco, gutka and aerated drinks. Making cigarettes expensive, Jaitley raised the excise duties on cigarettes and other tobacco products from 11 per cent and 72 per cent.
Jaitley has also hiked excise duty...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Punit Malhotra, who has been associated with Bollywood love stories, says his next film 'Gutka' starring Akshay Kumar will be completely different from his past projects and will be in the drama space.
"I am making a drama...my next film 'Gutka'. Akshay plays the lead in the film. It's...

Mumbai: It's World No Tobacco Day on Friday and CNNIBN finds out if the government's recent moves to curb health hazards has worked or not. Tobacco is addictive, causes cancer and is killing nearly 8 lakh Indians every year. What's more alarming is that a tenth of all cigarette smokers...

Kolkata: Waking up to the threats and consequences of high rate of tobacco consumption in the population, the West Bengal government has imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale of gutka, pan masala or any other product containing tobacco or Nicotine. The ban comes into effect on Wednesday till next...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed 23 states and five union territories to file status report on the implementation of the notification issued by them banning the sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine.
The apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi an Justice Kurien Joseph...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Health Secretaries of the states and Union Territories (UTs) to file compliance report on implementation of ban on sale and manufacture of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco.
A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi asked the Health Secretaries of 23 States and...

New Delhi: Even though the governmentapproved new pictorial warnings on tobacco packets were to be implemented April 1, 2013, a survey by a health organisation said on Monday that no tobacco products in the national capital carried the new warning.
"Tobacco companies have been given ample time to ensure the new...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government in a notification on Friday clamped a ban on the manufacture, sale and use of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine.
"The manufacture, storage, sale and distribution of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients by whatsoever name available in the market...

Mumbai/New Delhi: As 2012 comes to an end, CNNIBN takes a look at the key health issues of the year from the fight against polio that India can take pride in to the dismal malnutrition figures that shame the nation.
Reports showed 10 lakh deaths from oral cancer every year...

New Delhi: A new study has estimated that 100 million people have died due to smoking in India over the last 100 years, and the worst apparently is yet to come. Nearly 4.52 trillion cigarettes and 40.3 trillion beedis have been produced in 100 years, between 1910 and 2010 in...

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Akhilesh Yadav government to spell out its stand on banning gutka (tobacco pan masala) in Uttar Pradesh within two weeks, and warned if it failed to act, the court would itself slap a ban.
The directive came from a bench of Justices...

Mumbai: In a major victory for the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Saturday upheld its decision to ban tobacco flavoured gutka and pan masala in the state from July 19.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar, while hearing petitions by gutka and pan...

New Delhi: A year and 12 states later, Delhi has become the latest to ban gutka after the new Food Safety Law banning foods with tobacco and nicotine content came into being.
There is a mixed response to the national capital finally banning sale and manufacture of gutka. The ban affecting...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to the people of the state to launch a mass movement against gutka. "This is the time to rise to the occasion together and create a mass movement to remove gutka from our lives and save our youth from the menace...

New Delhi: The capital is set to ban gutka sales across the city. The government told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the ban would be put into effect soon.
The Sheila Dikshit government was replying to a PIL demanding a ban on gutka products.
The PIL was filed by doctors...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday declined to stay the ban imposed by the state government on the manufacture, storage and sale of gutka, pan masala and their variants containing tobacco and nicotine. Justice T R Ramachandran Nair passed the order on a batch of petitions filed by the...

Pune: Though the state government banned gutka and paan masala a few days ago, MiD DAY has found that it is not difficult to get the tobacco products in the city. The ban came into force on July 20, and since then officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),...

In a major breakthrough in the battle against tobacco, six states have banned gutka and other tobacco foods.
Here is the full transcript of CNNIBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose's chat with experts over the issue:
Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. Good evening. We are focusing tonight on the tobacco product gutka. Now...

New Delhi/Mumbai: In a major breakthrough, six states have banned gutka and other tobacco products. The antitobacco lobby is calling it a major victory. While the country is fighting the larger battle to ban gutka, Sarfabad in Uttar Pradesh has become the third village to go tobacco free. The Panchayat...

Mumbai: Almost two days after the Maharashtra government imposed a yearlong ban on the sale of gutka and pan masala in the state, Maharashtras Food and Drug Ministry is now mulling over plans to rope in a brand ambassador to support the cause. At the forefront is Bollywood actor Vivek...

Mumbai: The ban on gutka and pan masala across Maharashtra came into effect on Friday. The state government issued a notification banning sale and consumption of gutka and pan masala in the state. It will be valid for a year, after which it will be extended for another 12 months.
The...

Thiruvananthapuram: Citing increasing incidence of diseases like oral cancer, the Congressled UDF government in Kerala on Friday announced a ban on the manufacture and sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco in the state with immediate effect.
Announcing the decision at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy...

Mumbai: Gutka packets on average contain seven per cent magnesium carbonate, which is a chemical used in fire extinguishers, according to The Food And Drug Administration. The news is alarming as 206 million Indians use some form of smokeless tobacco.
The World Health Organisation estimates that 26 per cent of adults...

New Delhi: More than seven months after the Centre's new food safety law banned tobacco containing products, the Madhya Pradesh government has been the first state to implement the ban, starting April 2012. Its mandate is very clear, no sale and no manufacture of any food that contains tobacco.
The Madhya...

New Delhi: After a ban on plastic packaging for tobacco products, and harsher pictorial warnings that come into effect this December, the smokeless tobacco industry is facing the heat again. This time in the form of the new Food Safety Standards Act.
Under the new notification tobacco and nicotine cannot be...

New Delhi: After a ban on plastic packaging for tobacco products, the Supreme Court is now considering a total ban on gutka and other smokeless tobacco products.
Srinath Reddy, PHFI said, "Tobacco is the number one killer. It kills more than 1 million Indians every year. If you are considering...

Mumbai: Another politicianunderworld nexus has been exposed. This time between Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil and a dreaded criminal, Salim Patel alias Salim Goa Gutka.
Salim, who has close links with India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim, was in fact arrested in the Hyderabad blasts case, and has many...

New Delhi: The Maharashtra government will implement a new ban on the sale and consumption of gutka (chewing tobacco)all across the state from Tuesday.
The ban is under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act which stops using carcinogenic substances like magnesium carbonate in gutka.
The ban in Maharashtra was initially introduced...